[eBook Code] Fewer, Richer, Greener (eBook Code, 1st)

Foreword vii

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

Part I The Great Betterment

1 Right Here, Right Now 3

Part II Fewer

2 The Population Explosion, Malthus, and the Ghost of Christmas Present 19

3 The Demographic Transition: Running Out of and Into People 31

4 Having Fewer Children: “People Respond to Incentives” 43

5 Age Before Beauty: Life in an Aging Society 59

Part III Richer

6 Before the Great Enrichment: The Year 1 to 1750 79

7 The Great Enrichment: 1750 to Today 89

8 Food 101

9 Health and Longevity 121

10 Energy: A BTU is a Unit of Work You Don’t Have to Do 135

11 Cities 155

12 Education: The Third Democratization 171

13 Conflict, Safety, and Freedom 191

14 The Alleviation of Poverty 217

Part IV Explorations

15 Robots Don’t Work for Free: A Meditation on Technology and Jobs 245

16 The Mismeasurement of Growth: Why You Aren’t Driving a Model T 269

17 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: Deirdre McCloskey, Capitalism, and Christian Ethics 285

18 Simon and Ehrlich: Cornucopianism versus the Limits to Growth 299

19 Obstacles 305

20 “He Shall Laugh”: Why Weren’t Our Ancestors Miserable All the Time? 319

Part V Greener

21 Prologue: Why Poor is Brown and Rich is Green 331

22 A Skeptical Environmentalist: The Greening World of Bjørn Lomborg 339

23 Dematerialization: Where Did My Record Collection Go? 355

24 “We are as Gods”: The Fertile Mind of Stewart Brand 369

25 Ecomodernism: A Way Forward 379

Afterword 403

Reader’s Guide: Annotated Suggestions for Further Learning 407

References 415

Index 439